While this particular boogey man, The GunnyWolf, was new to me as I returned to the classroom a decade ago, I found the book included in the tomes designated by Harper Trophy, the reading series used by my new school district in Osage County, Oklahoma.

The tax exemption is the perennial boogey man of the credit union trades and the banking trades' excuse for existing when there's nothing important going on (like, say, a deep, prolonged financial crisis).

Grabill refers to scholastic economics as "the boogey man of economic history," and provides an impressive collection of authors (Bacon, Bonaventure, Scotus, Occam) who should not be ignored as John Locke attempted to do.

Wapass applauded the City of Regina and the Regina Chamber of Commerce for helping with that education, and for not looking at urban reserves as the 'boogey man' but as a way of contributing to Regina.

Not a triangle but a rectangle of protagonists frame this detective plot: a young assistant detective, Morava (yes, his name sounds very much like the eastern chunk of the Bohemia-Moravia Protectorate, and as a prey of Nazi predators he doubtless represents good in the novel); Morava's boss, Beran (as his name indicates, he is as stubborn as a ram and protects himself from the ugliness of politics); the Gestapo chief inspector, Buback (the boogey man who turns into a spy); and finally, Buback's superior, Meckerle, one of the most powerful Germans in occupied Prague.

I'm not referring here specifically to viruses, the Y2K boogey man, or sluggish internet connections, but the day to day challenges of navigating effectively and efficiently in this important part of the information universe.

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